Agam 11 Ang 11 Vipak Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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VipakShrut- Ang-11- ShrutSkandh-1, Chapter-3 9. Hun chhind-bhind-vikartak-one who utters such dreadful wordslike'cut to pieces', 'tear apart', and 'slaughter'. These adjectives reveal his extremely cruel, harsh, and violent conduct and behaviour.
[19] Meaning- Like a bamboo thicket bandit Vijaya provided protection and refuge in that bamboo forest to all sorts of branded and escaped criminals. These included thieves, womanizers (paardariks), bamboozlers (granthibhedak), housebreakers (sandhicchedak), wallbreakers (kshatrakhanak), gamblers, transgressors, destitute, deformed, disabled, and all sorts of outcasts. In and around Purimtal city, that leader of bandits, Vijay, habitually indulged in activities like raiding villages, raiding towns, driving away cattle, kidnapping prisoners, looting and beating wayfarers, and house breaking. With these activities he tormented, wrecked, terrorized, thrashed people and deprived citizens of their wealth, means of subsistence and peaceful living. He also habitually looted and collected the taxes due to king Mahabal.
That bandit-chief Vijaya had a beautiful wife named Skandashri. Bandit-chief Vijaya and Skandashri had a son named Abhagnasen who was a young man with a beautiful and well-proportioned body as well as a mature mind.
During that period of time Shraman Bhagavan Mahavir arrived at Purimtal City. People came to pay homage. The king of the city also came to pay homage. Bhagavan gave his discourse to all, after which the king and the people returned home.
During that period of time, while returning after collecting alms in the city, Gautam Swami, the senior disciple of Shraman Bhagavan Mahavir, came to the main road. There he saw many elephants, horses and foot soldiers duly equipped with armours and weapons. Amongst them he saw a man tied in the avakotak bond (bending the neck and tying it with Already tied at the back). Announcement was being made about him.
Those soldiers forced that prisoner to sit at the first road crossing (of many roads) and before his eyes killed his eight chachas (father's younger brothers, uncles, chullapiuye). After that they thrashed him with whips and, in this miserable condition, made him eat small pieces of his own flash and drink his own blood. Then those soldiers brought him on the second road crossing (of many roads), before his eyes killed his eight chachis (wives of father's younger brothers; aunts; chullamauyao), thrashed him and fed him his own flash and blood. In the same way they killed his six taus (father's elder brothers, uncles; mahapiuye) on the third crossing, his six tais (wives of father's elder brothers, aunts; mahamauyao) on the fourth crossing, sons (of his father excluding himself, his brothers) on the fifth crossing, daughters-in-law (of his father, wives of his brothers) on the sixth crossing, sons-in-law (of his father, husbands of his sisters) on the seventh crossing, daughters (of his father, his sisters) on the eighth crossing, grandsons (of his father; his nephews) on the ninth crossing, granddaughters (of his father, his nieces) on the tenth crossing, husbands of granddaughters (of his father on the eleventh crossing, wives of grandsons (of his father) on the twelfth crossing, husbands of his father's sisters (his uncles) on the thirteenth crossing, father's sisters (his aunts) on the fourteenth crossing, husbands of his mother's sisters (his maternal uncles) on the fifteenth crossing, mother's sisters (his aunts) on the sixteenth crossing, wives of mother's brothers on the seventeenth crossing, and other friends, Kinfolk, and close and distant relatives on the eighteenth crossing before his eyes. After each of these instances the soldiers thrashed him and, in this miserable condition, made him eat small pieces of his own flash and drink his own blood.
crossin materna S sisters crossing, Sfather)
Aagam - 11 - Vipak-Shrut
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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